Member of Hacking Ring Sentenced for ATM Theft Spree

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A woman who helped steal millions of dollars from ATMs in a
sophisticated and complex hacking scheme has been sentenced to 2½
years in prison and ordered to repay about $89,000.

Sonya Martin, 45, was part of a team that hacked into the
WorldPay US (formerly RBS Worldpay) network in December 2008 and
stole the
account details of roughly 1.5 million customers, accessed
two decades' worth of payment-processing information and
fraudulently used reloadable employee payroll cards.

According to Eduard Kovacs of Softpedia, the group also inflated
the balances and withdrawal limits on over 40 accounts.

Collectively, the group stole over $9 million from 2,100 ATMs in
nearly 300 cities. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Martin
worked with "cashers," the individuals responsible for physically
taking the money out of ATMs, in Chicago.

The incident led Visa to revoke WorldPay's Payment Card
Industry Data Security Standard compliance approval in
February 2009, forcing the U.S. arm of the Royal Bank of
Scotland to suspend transactions with payment processors.

Heartland Payment Systems, which worked with WorldPay, also lost
its
PCI-DSS compliance certification after it admitted that the
hackers had installed malware on their systems months before the
actual data breach.

Both companies regained their compliance approval three months
later after making network-security improvements and
encrypting the highly-sensitive information stored in their
systems.

Gonzalez was arrested in New Jersey in 2009 in connection with
the Heartland and WorldPay case. He was sentenced in March 2010
to 20 years in federal prison. He also has been convicted of
hacking schemes against the retail chains Dave & Buster's and
TJ Maxx.